President Kim Emphasize Inter-Korean Initiative For Peace Pact

President Kim stated yesterday, ``the Inter-Korean Peace Pact should be made to put an end to the truce situation in the Korean peninsula.``

The President emphasized at the 51st anniversary meeting of the Korean War that ``the Peace pact has to be led by the two Koreas even though it may requires the support of the U.S., China, and the U.N.``

This is not the first time for the President to utter the Peace Pact. However, he had talked about the necessity of the Peace Declaration after his visit to the U.S. last March.

A government source explained that the reason for the President’s talked about the intermediate stage was a tactic to consider the U.S. unpleasant response to the peace talk initiated by the two Koreas. And also it was considered that the Peace Pact would be the final stage of the Inter-Korean Reconciliation and Cooperation.

The reason that the President emphasized the Peace Pact initiated by the two Koreas seems to deliver the intention of the South to find the fundamental resolution of such problems as the intrusion of the North Korean vessels by the talks between the two Korean authorities.

Yun Seung-Mo ysmo@donga.com